Day 50: Ashland

UPDATE!
More from Ashland!
Emergent Forms!
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We’ve taken a lot of cabs on this trip, and we usually get a gruff no-response when we tell the cabbies what we’re up to
(e.g. Cabbie: “So what brings you to our fair city?”
Us: “Yay! Poetry reading! Yay!”
Cabbie: “uh . . . ”
Us: “We’re doing fifty in fifty days on a [...]

 

 Bill Wesley [2:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Day 49: San Francisco

UPDATE!
More from San Francisco
From The Believer
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The Make Out Room

Edwin Torres at Club Deluxe
Below are three lil movies from our amazing time in San Francisco.
One of Andrew Joron reading with a backing band at Club Deluxe, one of Noelle Kocot getting her beatnik bravado on, and the last of Michael Zapruder performing a poem set to [...]

 

 Andrew Joron at Club Deluxe [4:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Noelle Kocot in San Francisco [1:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Michael Zapruder [2:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Day 48: Santa Cruz

Poetry Santa Cruz
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We rode all night from Los Angeles, woke up to egrets, sea otters, hawks and finally 50 high school marching bands on the streets of Santa Cruz (the place poet Peter Gizzi lovingly calls “the Deep End”) where a peculiar kind of exhaustion took over.
We scattered throughout the city, some kayaking, some swimming [...]

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